davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Greenville times., 1887-04-16


Your attention is called to the
Spring meeting of your organiza
ton m Greenville,
TUESDAY, MAY 10th, 1887.
Il is desirable and important that
the attendance at this meeting
should comprise every county IN
the Delta. Only by a show Of active
interest in the organization and its
purposes can there be any assur-
ance of its vitality aud stability !;
or encouragement to those who
instituted it and have labOred to
bring it INTO working order. To
effect such meeting | especially
appeal to the the members OF the
Executive Committee; aud urge
that they take the matter in hand
and interest their county neigh
bors IN il.
The following is a list of said
Committee
DeSoto-T. w. White.
Tunica-C. A. Robinson.
Quitman-Dr. J. V. Cook.
Tallahatchie-B. w. Sturdiyant.
Coahoma-Dr. j. A. Peace.
Bohyar-Jas. +. Stokes.
Sunilower-T. II. Collins.
Washington-Matt +. johnson.
Lefore-David Humphreys.
Yazoo-R. V. Powers.
Sharkey-John Willis.
Issaquena--John w. Heath.
Warren-B. G. Kiger.
Holmes-Dr. KERN.
Papers In the Delta will please
publish the foregoing call.
ID. NJ. RUSSELL,
President.
The Greenville times., 1887-04-16
Coed for President Wilson.

The President of the Valley
road, Mr.. X. Z. Wilson. has shown
his interest in Greenville; by au.
thorizing Colonel w. A. Percy to
put him down as a subscriber to
the Harbor Improvement bonds
when voted to the amount of
$4,000. The only condition he
attaches to the substitution is that
none of such bonds shall he sold
al less than ninety cents on The
dollar.
The Greenville times., 1887-04-16
An End to Bone Scrapinp

Edward Shepherd. of Harrisburg, ILL.,.
says: "Having received so much ben
eft from Electric Bitters, feel 1t my
duty to let suffering humanity know It.
Have had running sore on my leg for
eight years; my doctors told me would
have to have the bone scraped or leg am
putated. | used, instead, three bottles
OF Electric Bitters and seven boxes
Bucklen's Arnica Salve, and my leg ia
now sound and WE'LL"
Electric Bltters are sold ,at 80 cents n
bottle, and Bucklen's Arnica Salye at q
cents per box by A. Il. Finlay & Co.
The Greenville times., 1887-04-16
A Waterways Convention.

There is some discussion by
certain of the Valley papers upon
the assembling of a waterways
convention of the citizens of the
Valley of the Mississippi and its
tributaries, at Memphis. Without
entering upon statement of rea.
sons, we favor such convention.
and think it eminently desirable /;
at some date in the coming Fall,
prior to the meeting of Congress.
The Greenville times., 1887-04-16
WEHTNT FUR SHERIFF.

Alta meeting Of the citizens Of
the 9th district. at HollOndale pre-
clnct. on the 9th day of April,
1857. w. Z. West was called TO
the chair aud s. w. Barefeld ap-
pointed secretary. The object of
the meeting was stated BY Major
W. d. Ferris, and the following
committee on resolutions was ap-
pointed: w. ID. Ferris, J. I. Casey,
John Evans, and J. A. Hollings-
worth.
The following resolutions were
unanimously adopted:
Whereas, we have learned that
our Sheriff is undecided or relue-
tant to offer himself as candidate
for re election; therefore
Resolved, That as Sheriff of this
county for a number of years,
Captain w. E. Hunt, BY his hon.
esty, courtesy, and unfailing dis
charge of the duties of his Office
has given universal satisfaction
to the citizens, and worthily won
their esteem and appreciation.
Resolved, That believing it to
be the will of the people of the
entire county, we, the citizens Of
the 9th district, earnestly request
that he announce his willingness
to again serve the people Of Wash
ington county as Sheriff. =
Resolved, That copy Of these
resolutions be sent TO Captain w
L. Hunt, and that the Greenyille
Times and Yazoo Delta Review be
requested to publish same.
w. Z. WEST, Chairman.
s. A. BAREPIELD, Secretary.
The resolutions of the Holl0n
dale meeting bring to memory thai
back in the days of carpetbaggery
there were in the very remote re-
gions Of this county some "bad
men from Bitter creek,n who were
in the habit of painting their sec
tion red not with benzine alone
but with the richer crimson o.
human blood; and who had sc
little fear of the quality of sheriff:
we then had, that after popping I
man over they would defy arres
until 1t suited their pleasure to ge'
up and fly. When Captain Hun
was elected IN 1875, these bulldo
sers learned that it was unlawful
to kill without just cause; ant
that there was quiet little man il
Greenville who was sure to go fol
offenders, no matter how desper
ate they might be; and soon swee
peace reigned where violence ha,
ragged. The Hollondale resolverl
remember this and want to TAX,
no chances on a change. Still thii
Is q free country; and il any on,
wants to cast his grist of chances
into the Democratic mill agains
those Of Capt. H., he can rely up
on fair weight and just measure.
| --s-
The Greenville times., 1887-04-16

Mr.. Frank Chinn, prominent
lawyer of Frankfort, Kentucky,
and his wife. have been in our
city upon a visit to Mrs. Ohinn's
mother, her brothers Captain W.
4, and ID. +. Hunt, and her sisters,
Mrs. Kate Stone and Mrs. G. NJ.
johnson.
The Greenville times., 1887-04-16

One ofCol. Hemingway's barns
was destroyed by fire at four
o'clock this morning. The barn
contained about 1000 bushels of
oats, 75 tons hay, a hay press,
reapers and mowers, plows and all
the agricultural implements of the
farm. The loss Is at least $4,000 /;
insurance on barn, $500 ; on feed,
$1,000. The origin oflhe fire is not
known.-Clarion.
The Greenville times., 1887-04-16

There is a good deal of tlisap.
polntment amongst spectators in
futures at the results of the enter
PRISE managed by Col. Dauphin.
IN New Orleans, which declared
dividends on the 18th. None of
the Greenville stockholders real.
lzed upon the capital paid IN. Well.
folks. there is another and bigger
speculation IN futures, in a place
where 1t Is said gold is so abund.
ant that 1t is laid down in the side
walks, aud 1t takes nothing hut a
ticket of good behavior to draw
n corner lot.
The Greenville times., 1887-04-16
Mary Anderson Tobacco.
Unknown To Us.

To have spoiled or ropey Soda
Water returned. We use only
the very best material, and having
many years experience in the car.
Donating of waters, the public can
rest assured they are getting the
very best goods from our estab.
lishment.
W. Il. BECK & CO,
Hill City Steam Bottling Works.
feb. 20. Vicksburg, Miss.
The Greenville times., 1887-04-16
CASH BUYS CHEAP.

Call and see Ben and Hal Rucks
and be convinced. FINE GooDs,
FRESH GOODS arriving daily, SO
good people, zine the procession
and 60 to the HARD CASH GRO.
Gerry STORE.
The Greenville times., 1887-04-16

Mr.. Lamar will be orator at the
unveiling of the monument to Cal.
houn at Charleston on the ..25th ;
his old Senatorial foe, Conkling,
will eulogize Grant at Pittsburg
on the 25th.
The Greenville times., 1887-04-16

Judge Wiley and Col. Buckner,
prominent citizens of East Carol
parish, were in Greenville Thurs.
day.
The Greenville times., 1887-04-16

Mr.. II. P. Lee, the popular con.
ductor on the Georgia Pacific has
been promoted to the position and
duties of soliciting freight agent.
The Greenville times., 1887-04-16

There was a grand dress parade
of the street ears on Thursday.
They were filed at almost every
trip with ladies, gentlemen, boys
and little girls. Upon the first
trip of the first car, as honored
guest was our old fellow citizen
Mrs. Theobold, who during the
long years of her residence here
has seen the cane brake bloom
into plantation, and the planta.
ton into town with two railroads
pouring their wealth into IL, and
now supplied with the crowning
convenience Of civilization n
street. railroad.
The cars are very handsome,
four in number, two closed cars
aud two summer cars. The track
Is of the most substantial charac.
ter, and will be good and perma.
nent when the population of our
city shall have swollen into the
thousands VIC so confidently ex.
pect.
The Greenville times., 1887-04-16

The new brick school house will
be ready for the teachers and
scholars on the LIST of next month
so far as the contractors are con
cerned.
The Greenville times., 1887-04-16
CASH NOTICE.

Hereafter | shall conduct nv
business on a STRICTLY CASH
basis, and make no time sale to
anyone. J. II. LEAyENwoRrn.
March f2-tf
The Greenville times., 1887-04-16

Our Soda Waters of all flavors
will keep any length of time.
This is convincing proof that we
use only the very best material.
w. L. BECK & CO.,
Hill City Steam Bottling Works,
feb. 20. vicksburg, Miss.
The Greenville times., 1887-04-16

Mr.. j. A. Coon, one of the sub.
stantial men of South Central Mis-
sissippi, has been in Greenville
during the past week; and bought
a lot on Main street on which he
will build a brick store. He Is so
well pleased with the Delta capi.
tai that he desires returning next
week; and will probably make
considerable real estate invest.
ments.
The Greenville times., 1887-04-16
DROWNED,

A middle aged mulatto, light
monstache, five feet six inches tall.
was drowned in the chute in front
of Warfelds last Monday.
The Greenville times., 1887-04-16

Close cash buyers should see us
before buying. We Will save them
money.
apo 81 STARTLING & SMITH.
The Greenville times., 1887-04-16
Hill City Steam Bottllng Works.
W. Il. BECK & CO.. Proprietors,
Tirkshurv Miss

This is the only establishment
of the kind in the South that use
engine power to drive the machin.
cry, thereby assuring us of pure
and lighter waters than those
made by hand. The public are
invited to call and examine our
works. feb. 26.
The Greenville times., 1887-04-16

A Vicksburg base ball club will
play our Browns on Monday next.
Bring up what money you can
spare. boys; for we uns here will
go the downs +" that you uns
can't beat the GreeDville Browns.
The Greenville times., 1887-04-16

For period Of sixteen years have been af-
nieted with catarrh of the head which bafled
the use Of all medicines used Seeing the adver-
usement of 3. II b purchased aud used six
or seven bottles, and although used irregnlarlv
have received great relief. and recommend il a.
good blood purifier.
tsigned1 J K HOLIOMBE. JR.
sheriff of Haralson county, Ca.
The Greenville times., 1887-04-16
Memphis Scimitar.l

Messrs. Butcher. Oliver aud
Associates, ..of the Southern Oil
Company, yesterday purchased
twenty.four acres of land at the
junction ofthe Memphis s. Charles.
ton and Kansas City Railroads. 1t
is their purpose to at once erect a
cotton seed mill and refinery. The
price paid for the grounds was
s25,S00 The Southern Oil Com.
pany is In active competition with
the buiness of the American Cotton
Oil Trust. One of the parties to
the trade consummated yesterday
ineautiously let drop the informa.
ton that Notwithstanding the many
denials that have been made in
public prints the Armour's were
interested IN the new company.
The Greenville times., 1887-04-16

All who desire null information about the cause
and cure Of Blood Poisons, scrofuia and scrniu-
ious Sweiiings, Ulcers, sores, rheumatism,
hiunel Complaints, Catarrh, etc, can secure by
mail, free, copy Of our ss-pare Illustrated
Book Of Wonders, filled with the most wonder
fui and startling proof ever before known.
Address nTOon RAIN ~
ocz Is AfInufa i.
For ale kr A n Finlar 4 ca A''e''a. ga.
The Greenville times., 1887-04-16

The DemOosaiie
mittee Of the 4sh Jss.
is called to meet il
MONDAY. MAy
for the purpose ot =
trict Oonvention 4
candidate for DIsIrI,, !.
the ensuing electIon.
The following ars a.
of said committee
COahOma County
Quitman-F. N. H.sI..
Partee
Suntiower-G. K.
r. Baird
Bolivar-Chas.ScOtt D.
WashingtOn-P.LP.s'
johnson
Issaquena-J. W. n.
Root
j. s. McSlul,
Papers in the DIst.s
copy.
The Greenville times., 1887-04-16

U0TTcan live at home and maks
vHIIey at work for us than o. -.
IHln this world. Capital nea
i VUare started free. Bothsexrl
Any one can do the w"
earnings sure from first start ea'
anu terms free Better not ielay. =
no'lling to send us you address and y
you are wise You will do so at one.
.ht q Co., Portland, Maine.
The Greenville times., 1887-04-16

We claim to give b,t,,)
in Shoes than any bo..'
city. Selling the bs.l /
close margins.
ap9-3t STARTLING 4,
The Greenville times., 1887-04-16

Ferguson & FInlay have their
real estate board in front of their
Office bearing daily record of the
transfers ofproperty through their
agency.
SALES THE PAST WEEK.
Lot on Poplar street, 4Ox1G5, 5000
+" Central ave, 65x1SO, 675
The Greenville times., 1887-04-16
A SHERIFF RELEASED.

Yours truly W. I. ROBINsO,
Tishabee. Ala. May L IsSsi
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-23
BREAKFAST-TABLE CHAT.

A. T. STEWART useo TO say that the secret of
advertising was to compel people to remember
your name"
MAUD BANKS in her makeup as Joan Of Arc
is an almost exact reproduction of the striking
figure of that heroine by Bastien LIE Page.
Mr.. IJAMs is running for Office in Omaha
The ProhIbitionists will vote against him be-
cause he comes within one of being Mr.. j. Jams
A NEWARK inventor has perfected an cleo
trical apparatus by means of which ne claims
that can be made to "thi nix hole
through a half-incn board"
Mrs. JOHN JACOB AsToR pays her chief cook
$1,000 per annum, and then has to content her
self with the painest kind of fare. She is
troubled with dyspepsia in its worst form.
MANAGING EDITOR JAMES J. CLANCY, of the
New York Graphic. has just returned from
trip to Ireland in time to find his paper sold and
himself out of job. Enos W. Barnes. or Wells
Vile. will be the new editor.
CHRISTINE NILSSON is tenn orarily deaf, from
an abscess in the She caught cold while
Mime. Nilsson has just rented elegant apart
ments in the Place Veudome, Paris.
THE Owen Stanley Range. in New Guinea
has bean assembled for the first time by Mr. C.
H. Martin of Toowoomba, Queensland He re-
ports that the further side of the mountain is a
perfect paradise of ferns, palms and magnificent
trees.
A MAN thought of buying a home in one of the
booming towns of the Pacific coast. I But after
thinking the matter over he said that the body
of his boy lay in cemetery near Chicago, and
he could not bring himself TO move away from
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-23
A MODERN ROMANCE.

Vassar girls are gossiping now over what
they pleased to call romance, and if re-
ports from that college are to be believed the
young women are greatly pleased and excited
overit. The romance" consists in the fact
that one of the teachers of the institution is
about to be married. Now it may be true
that there is something inherently romantic
in any sort of marriage, and there is really
no good reason why female professor should
not be the heroine of the giddiest sort of a
romance, an ecstatic development of the
tender passion being by no means incompatible
with the possession of the Hottest and most
mathematical variety of intellect. Neither is
there any thing destructive of the sentimental
idea in the circumstance that the lady in
question is of somewhat advanced years. and
has grown gray in the effort to instill the
Vassar idea into unwilling pupils. The most
intense affection may exist under thatch of
the grayest hair, any one knows who has
observed the ardor of an elderly mans wooing.
The fact that the bridegroom in the present
case has already been twice married, how
ever, does, it must be confessed detract
somewhat from the sentiment of the occasion,
and suggests that Vassar girls have dry pick
ings when they make romance out of
the affair. '.All the world loves lover" but
when the lover is sixty years old, and has
loved early and often, interest in his case is
by no means absorbing. The public will wish
the Vassar teacher well, but will hope at the
same time that the admiring young ladies
may have a more fortunate fate. It should
be added. perhaps that in some unmarried
interval of the gentlemans life the two had
met, and loved, and parted, and. also, that he
is row millionairel The last fact is, after all,
perhaps the secrect of the Vassar girls inter
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-23
THE GLADSTONE CHIPS.

That is rather queer story about the traf-
fc in chips chopped by Mr.. Gladstone, and if
1t were confined to the first report might be
accepted of the imaginative tales so
frequently constructed by ingenious
foreign correspondents when there
Is dearth of interesting facts.
Later and more circumstantial details
concerning the matter, however and the
statement that circular, giving rates on
chips, has been issued from the Gladstone es-
Enlistment, indicate that the business of
selling the bits of wood has been entered into
systematically. This sort of thing may be
regarded in England as proper thrift, but the
Yankee spirit, which is supposed on the
other side of the Atlantic to be purely mer-
senary must revolt at this personal specula-
lion in relics.
The explanation by the ex-Premier's son
That he alone is responsible for tho circular,
and that his father has no interest in it.
hardly mends the matter. The American
sense Of propriety, which would have been
shocked had Abraham Lincoln sold chips from
the rails he split. or would look with horror
upon traffic in his own autographs by the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-23
Steel Lace.
Pitshurp ChronicIe.


The question of making laces of iron and steel
for ladies and chidren's wear is again being dis
cussed in art. mill aud fashion circles. At the
centennial in 1876 piece Of steel rolled by a
Pittsburg mill was exhibition, which was so
thin and light that it weighed much less than
book leaf, and could be blown from the hand
easier than a piece of paper of the same size.
The iron leaf rolled on train of rolls upon
which heavy tank and boiler iron is now rolled.
Experts say that curtains and other fine aces
can be made of soft malleable iron, and in every
way be used with greater satisfaction. than cot
ton laces. The sheets will necessarily have TO
be rolled down to exceedingly low gauge and
then pressed into any desirable pattern and
shape. There will be trouble in furnishing
iron laces for ladies' and children's wear. with
their names and other ornamentations in filagree
design. An introduction of steel lace would. es-
tabsh in Pittsourg an industry that would give
work to at least 3. 600 men. and consume annual
ly not less than 76 900 tons of steel. which is
a drug in the market at less than cents
pound. Steel lace. unlike cotton. can be made
light or heavy without affecting the grade. color
brightness. We may yet fashionable
ladies wearing steel shawls and trimmings for
their hats and dresses
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-23
Styles in Ladies' waistcoats.

New YORK Evening Po5t
White cloth braided in gold and soft nuns
gray braided in black or silver pretty fash
ions in waistcoats Just now. Sometimes they
double waistcoats, the outer one in velvet.
the inner one in white. Or. again, the waist
coat is cut exactly like the front of a bodice and
covered with a network of beads shaped to sim
ulate a vest. There is plenty Of room for in
genuty in the trimming Of this particular por-
tion of dress. as small remnants of silk and
velvet will find easy application, and these may
be wonderfully improved by the addition OF
needlework in the shape of braiding. mbroidery
and beading. Moreover, n costume may be sup
Piled with a number of waistcoats to one Jacket,
which will give variety at small expense. Tho
same costume worn with crimson velvet vest
hardly looks the when mbined with
gold -em br oidered white cloth. The former will
be the best suited to dull, gray day, the latter
to sunny one Another and very different
sort of waistcoat shows soft folds of silky fab
rio crossed over the chest and combined at the
waist by a velvet Girdle or a silk belt. laid in
Horizontal folds and held by . jeweled buckle.
In appearance it is fchu similar to those worn
in the peasant costumes of many of the French
provinces but IN reality it is a double breasted
bodice on which the folds are firmly sewn fchu-
wise, il being we'll TO leave nothing 30 chance
Our modern maid or matron prefers to have her
dress making done for her, and not to have to
pin and plat her clothes herself each time she
puts them
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-23

ont 70 whom had teleeraphedf And finally.
as triumph OF apparent Ruilelessness, why had
lot telegraphed TO him directf
Such are samples of the important questions
put TO me by the distinguished Senator And
my answers seemed to interest him. for he for.
got his bread and butter in listening to me-
which fatterad my pride not little.
now thought that I had right to query
Mr. Blaine little. So asked among other
things il might have the pleasure of calling on
MIN during his stay in Paris.
"Well.n he replied. 81 shall be glad to
you il You do not come in your capacity of o
journalist. for. as 1 have already told you
have positively made up my mind not to talk
through the newspapers"
assured the timid gentleman that should b
oelgnted to present myself in any role he
wished to assume and then wickedly in
quired at what hotel he meant to stop.
II have not yet decided" was the prompt re-
Spouse; and | tried to forget that telegram
signed Blaine which had read . few hours
before and which stands at the head of this
letter.
Before we reached Paris, Mr. Blaine sent of
another telegram making two since the train
left Dijon-a rather large number, it struck me,
for a man who was travelling about aimlessly,
with the single desire of escaping from all the
is what Senator Hale said to me dag. or two
before. referring to Mr. Blaine and his European
preparations
AS we approached the outskirts of the French
capital, added the following fragment Co my
scanty interview:
''You say that Paris has q population Of two
and a. half mllonss Well, that illustrates what
consider to be one of the great social evils Of
our age. viz. the tendency Of people to flock to
great cities They prefer to suffer and starve in
squald tenement-houses than to live in peace
and plenty, they might il they would only
stay on their farms or in the quiet provincial
towns. And this continued migration towards
popular centers renders it vastly more diffcult'
to relieve distress. This question is perplex-'
inc one, which the future will solve with diff
Guilty"
Perhaps Mr.. Blaine might have gone on and,
in the end. have strayed even into the political
field. But his philosophical train of thought
was suddenly interrupted by our arrival. We
were now in the big. noisy depot. And when, .
few moments later. passed the custom-house
room. where heard Mr.. Blaine pouring forth
the walls of his wrath the defective European
baggage system, he suddenly turned on me and
said:
'Now young man. don't you 60 to work and
manufacture an interview out OF this ride.
You say what you please yourself. but
don't make me responsible, either directly or in
directly, for any thing you may see fit to write"
At the very beginning of our journey-oefore
we had lost sight of quaint old Dijon-I had
proposed to MIR. Blaine to lay before him for his
correction and approval whatever I should
write But he would not oven listen my
proposition. And, as am certainly not naive
enough to travel nearly 400 miles for nothing,
have tried to least give faithful description
of how Blaine came from Dion to Paris.
CLEVELAND MoFFETr
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-23
IANAPoLrs JOURNAL.

President of the United States, would not be
appeased were the sons of one or the wife of
transactions. It is call in the family" and
the American traveller. though he may will
ingly purchase one of the Gladstone chips at
the highest market price, will regret that the
great statesman's sense of the fitness Of
things, so infallible in politics, should not
extend to the smaller affairs of life and to the
prevention of such petty trading upon his
popularity